Editorial Policies
Data deposition and data sharing
Data Sharing Policy
As part of the Taylor & Francis Group, Dove Medical Press applies the Basic Data Sharing Policy. Authors are encouraged to share or make open the data supporting the results or analyses presented in their paper where this does not violate the protection of human subjects or other valid privacy or security concerns.
Authors are encouraged to deposit the dataset(s) in a recognized data repository that can mint a persistent digital identifier, preferably a digital object identifier (DOI) and recognizes a long-term preservation plan. If you are uncertain about where to deposit your data, please see this information regarding repositories.
Authors are further encouraged to cite any data sets referenced in the article and provide a Data Availability Statement.
Where one or multiple data sets are associated with a manuscript, these are not formally peer reviewed as a part of the journal submission process. It is the author’s responsibility to ensure the soundness of data. Any errors in the data rest solely with the producers of the data set(s).
Community-endorsed public repositories
Where community-endorsed mandates exist for submission of data to public repositories, authors should submit the datasets to the appropriate repositories and provide the accession numbers (where available) in the paper. Authors should include a statement in their manuscript about where the data can be found and provide links to the publicly archived datasets. The statement of data availability should explain which additional unpublished data from the study, if any, are available, to whom, and how these can be obtained. These datasets can also be cited in the reference list and this is particularly encouraged when the datasets have a Digital Object Identifier (DOI). In cases where authors do not wish to share their data or are unable to do so, they should state that data will not be shared and the reasons why.
Data availability and deposition
As part of the Taylor & Francis Group, Dove Medical Press offers a suite of data-sharing policies which can be found here. A list of recommended data repositories is also available here.
Examples of more specific repositories are listed below:
Data type |
Suggested repositories |
DNA and RNA sequences |
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DNA and RNA sequencing |
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Gene expression |
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Genetic polymorphisms |
dbSNP NCBI |
Linked genotype and phenotype data |
dbGAP NCBI |
Protein sequences |
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Proteomics data |
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Metabolomics data |
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3-D printable models |
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Neuroimaging data |
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Macromolecular structures |
Biological Magnetic Resonance Data Bank (BMRB) |
Updated 2 August 2021